Friday Ephemera (784)
A project for the weekend, requires detergent sprinkles. || Oh, I dunno, a little picky, methinks. || Improbable levitation. || Why, what did you see? || So how was your day? || You don’t get to, says she. || She’s looking for the perfect liberal. Note obligatory pinching of fingers. || “Sneaking… Mum’s underwear,” says he. || Schoolgirling scenes. || Signage issues. || Signs of enrichment. || Hugging occurred. || Mr Hopper liked to wear his sister’s clothes, but that’s not the detail you’re going to remember. || For everything, a time and a place. || Guitar playing, simplified. || Moustachioed woman has thought. || Mistakes were made. || Birds of the night. || Highway intervention. || Just another fifty times, dear human. || And finally, via Elephants Gerald, big-hair Kirk and the milk-stealing Klingons.
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Trusting a Guardian reporter is like trusting a plague rat…no, worse.
South Koreans chanting “we are Charlie Kirk”
They’re thinking millions. Maybe 3 million.
Buckley’s example of pushing an old lady in front of a bus, and also pushing her out of the way.
You can use the same method for good or ill.
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He attended Utah State University for one semester, then left, then did the apprenticeship thing. From that I assume that he was going for something more academic at USU and then stopped and switched to something practical.
Or maybe something bad happened and he had to leave USU. I don’t know. Maybe his parent wanted him closer to keep an eye on him.
You can’t see it, but Wayne gave it a like.
Trusting a Guardian reporter is like trusting a plague rat…no, worse.
The people doing it as a lifestyle choice are white. The men who’ve resolved to get over their timidity about butchering livestock or saying no to their wives, when such things haven’t been done by any man in their family for 3 generations, they’re likely to be white. But have you seen the streets and the airports and the maternity wards lately? They’re full of people who know how to butcher livestock and say no to their wives, not as historical reconstruction, but as the daily routine they followed in their old country and see no reason not to continue in their new country.
“Non-whites find it harder to feel enthusiastic about reconstructing the past” – in case you didn’t get the message there, if non-whites have less to be nostalgic about than whites, it’s the fault of the whites. Up to the 60’s, when whites created nice things for themselves, they didn’t feel guilty that they didn’t equally provide nice things for aliens. If whites start being nostalgic for the nice things, they’ll eventually start being nostalgic about the lack of guilt, and then where will we be?
— ESR
None, really. I was busy elsewhere. Though in terms of attendance, I’d be tempted to rely on estimates from aerial footage, rather than any pronouncements of the BBC, Channel 4, etc., especially those in which the word white is deployed as a default pejorative, or some implied basis for dismissal. As if simply being white – or reflecting the racial demographics of the country as a whole, not London – were somehow invalidating of any and all concerns.
Our media generally deploys the terms “right” and “far-right” with great enthusiasm, if not great accuracy, while using “left” and “centre-left” for those on the other side of the aisle. The asymmetry is perhaps worth noting.
Star Trek: The 70s Disco Generation
I saw that and thought, no way that crowd is only 100,000. There might, maybe “only” have been 100k in some of the pictures but those pictures showed streets that were full to the brim. It was clear that the crowds extended around corners or otherwise out of sight surely putting them well over 100k. Again, even assuming the pictures were of only 100k people.
Yes indeed.That was my immediate thought,too. Do you remember how left-leaning news organs* systematically under-reported the size of Tea Party protests? When they didn’t ignore them entirely?
George Orwell got it:
Star Trek: The 70s Disco Generation
You’ve stolen my childhood!!
How Dare You!!!
I read the replies, including those from the subject of the article. They found it surprisingly even-handed, except for the headline inserted by the desk editor.
Ah, I should always remember that reporters don’t write the headlines for their articles.